Interactive

Science

Notebooks

Composition Notebook

LET’S GET STARTED…

Cover or Title Page

Give your science

notebook a title.

This should give the

reader an idea of

what this notebook

will be about.

Student Name

Ms. Wolfe

2015-2016

Graphic Organizers

• There are twelve graphic organizers that

are acceptable to use in this classroom.

• I may ask you to use a specific GO, or

sometimes you will be able to choose

one.

Student Side Teacher Side

Essential Question

Bell Ringer

Quick-Write

Exit Ticket

Quick-Write

Graphic Organizer

Lesson Notes

Diagrams/Illustrations

Lab Sheets

Data and Graphs

Observations & Sketches

8/25/15

IN Activity

1. How do scientists use ISNs?

(Interactive Science Notebooks)

Team chat and write down your answer

SCIENTIST’S NOTEBOOKS

• The following slides show real

notebooks from scientists who work at

Battelle – Pacific Northwest National

Laboratory in Richland, Washington.

• Watch carefully as important parts to a

scientist’s notebook are shared.

Computational Chemist “Something

wrong with

this”

Computational Chemist

“will have

all of

these

checked

for

instability

and

optimize”

Materials Scientist Reference graphs and tables pasted into notebook

Materials Scientist Sample

sketch

Materials Scientist

Results (crossed out)

ECOLOGIST

Describing

the

problem –

the purpose

of the study

ECOLOGIST

Identifying

the site

including

selection

criteria

ECOLOGIST

Specifications

regarding the

Elk Enclosures

THINKING ABOUT YOUR SCIENCE

NOTEBOOK…

• What are some of the things you saw

happening in the scientists’ notebooks?

OUT Activity

List 6 things that you observed form the scientists

ISNs

THINKING ABOUT NOTEBOOKS…

Share out

with your

table

group…

REFLECT…

Which of those

things do you think

you could

incorporate in

YOUR notebook?

SKETCH YOUR OBJECT

Model first – describing

what you are doing…

Outside shape

Split object into parts

Move from Sketch to Scientific

Illustration

Label the parts

Add color and dimension

Drawing now is detailed,

accurate, and labeled

OBSERVATIONS ORGANIZER Writing Frame

Think of properties you can see such as size, shape, color, lines, texture, pattern, behavior…

I observed

Think of the other senses of smell, sound, touch, and perhaps taste!

I noticed

Connect it with something that you already know.

It reminds me of

Add more detail as needed.

This is so because

Be curious and ask questions you could investigate.

I am curious about

It surprised me that

I wonder what would happen if

This organizer or writing frame is one part of a comprehensive, research-based approach to teaching students how to think, talk

and write like scientists. (See Writing in Science by Betsy Rupp Fulwiler, © 2007, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.)

Now add a new

object…

THE BOX & T-CHART

Object #1 Object #2

Similarities

Differences

THE BOX & T-CHART

Similarities

Differences

This organizer or writing frame is one part of a comprehensive, research-based approach to teaching students how to think, talk

and write like scientists. (See Writing in Science by Betsy Rupp Fulwiler, © 2007, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.)

Object #1 Object #2

COMPARE AND CONTRAST Writing Frame

Start with how

things are the

same or similar. The _____ and the ______ are

the same because they both

___________.

Add more details

as needed. In addition, they both

________________.

Explain how they

are different. You

can compare the

same property or

characteristic in

the same

sentence. Use

“and”, “but”, or

“whereas” to set

up the contrast.

They are different because the

______, but the ______ does not.

Add more detail

as needed. Also, the ________, whereas the

________________ does not.

This organizer or writing frame is one part of a comprehensive, research-based approach to teaching students how to think, talk

and write like scientists. (See Writing in Science by Betsy Rupp Fulwiler, © 2007, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.)

Update Your Table of Contents

• Turn back to your Table of Contents.

• Add “Observations and Sketches” with

the corresponding date and page

numbers.

• Now that you have had a basic

experience in using your science

notebook you are ready to record

your experiences while at work in your

science class!

THEN…

Don’t forget to let your notebook

reflect your…